You may soon be able to catch up with friends and relatives who have passed away — on your computer.

Dr. Pratik Desai, a Silicon Valley computer scientist who has founded multiple Artificial Intelligence platforms, boldly predicts that a human being’s “consciousness” could be uploaded onto digital devices by the end of the year.

“Start regularly recording your parents, elders and loved ones,” he urged Friday in a Twitter thread that’s since racked up more 5.7 million views and 10s of thousands of responses.

“With enough transcript data, new voice synthesis and video models, there is a 100% chance that they will live with you forever after leaving physical body,” Desai continued. “This should be even possible by end of the year.”

Uploading a person’s consciousness would involve digitizing videos, voice recordings, documents and photos of the person you wish to reimagine in your computer. These compiled assets would then be uploaded into an AI system that will learn all there is to know about the person.

The ultimate goal: For users to create an avatar to resemble their loved one before they passed — so they can, in effect, live forever on your screen.

Amid rising concerns about the growing global dominance of AI — marked by every thing from “destructive” bot behavior to obsolete jobs to false criminal accusations — one company called Somnium Space is offering an AI “live forever” mode to give users exactly what it sounds like: Immortality.

“Literally, if I die — and I have this data collected — people can come or my kids, they can come in, and they can have a conversation with my avatar, with my movements, with my voice,” founder and CEO Artur Sychov told Vice.

“You will meet the person. And you would maybe for the first 10 minutes while talking to that person, you would not know that it’s actually AI. That’s the goal.”

Another company, Deepbrain, developed a program called “re;memory,” which allows the user an opportunity to walk down memory lane with a memorial hall — and even interact with their late loved ones “through an actual conversation.”

Meanwhile, similar freakishly futuristic technology has already started being used for celebrities.

Deepfakes use artificial intelligence to manipulate videos and replace the legitimate likeness of one person with an impossible-to-detect imitation, often to alarming effect.

One AI platform created a “digital twin” of Bruce Willis, who was diagnosed with aphasia — a brain disorder that affects his ability to communicate, which will allow him to appear on screen after his retirement from acting.

The “Die Hard” actor’s deepfake already made its debut in August 2021 when his face was “grafted” onto Konstantin Solovyov for a commercial for MegaFon, a Russian telecommunications company.

The Willis estate has the final say on what’s created with his likeness and reportedly licensed the rights to use his face in the ad campaign.

In Entertainment Weekly’s “Around the Table” video series last December, award-winning actresses Jean Smart and Margot Robbie spoke about their concerns around potentially pornographic deepfakes.

“After you’re dead, they’ll go, ‘Oh, let’s put Margot Robbie in that movie’ — a hundred years from now, having her doing God knows what. And your estate will have to sue them. It’ll be horrible, Margot,” Smart, 71, said.

On the other end of the technological advances spectrum, many still argue that AI advancements — including ChatGPT — can be beneficial to both technology and humanity.

However, a group of tech experts — including Elon Musk — is urging a six-month pause in the training of advanced AI models, arguing the systems could have “profound risks to society and humanity.”

The CEO of Twitter and Tesla joined more than 1,000 experts in signing an open letter organized by the nonprofit Future of Life Institute, which is primarily funded by the Musk Foundation, the billionaire’s charitable grant organization.

The letter calls for an industrywide pause until proper safety protocols have been developed and vetted by independent experts — and details potential risks that advanced AI poses without proper oversight.

Risks include the spread of “propaganda and untruth,” job losses, the development of “nonhuman minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace us,” and the risk of “loss of control of our civilization.”